Two Fast and Functional USB Flash Drives

Benchmark Results

A note to our readers: the values measured for our transfer tests perform raw read and write operations without involving a real file system. Thus, these results are unattainable in practice, yet they do provide a basis for comparison that applies even when file systems do come into play.

Data Transfer Diagrams

Raw Data Transfer Performance Numbers

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.